Why is
sleeping child in the hands of beggars? Have you ever …wondered …

This is an article
I came across months ago. We are not sure of the author. However we’ve checked
the authenticity of this with our followers in Bangkok and Cambodia.
Surprisingly this seems to be true and their request is only to offer beggars
with food and water and not money. Any hlp you can do in terms of their needs
are just fine. But make sure you do not hand over big bills that will keep the
begging industry going. You should be wise enough to know whom to help and how
to help. Make your decision based on the situation and knowing it well enough.

“”Near the metro
station sits a woman of uncertain age. Women’s hair is confused and dirty, her
head bowed in grief.

The woman sits on
the dirty floor and next to her lies a bag. In that bag people throw money. On
the hands of a woman, asleep, is a two year old baby. He’s in a dirty hat and
dirty clothes.

“Madonna with baby”
– numerous passers-by will donate money. The people of our kind- we always feel
sorry for less fortunate. We are ready to give unfortunate people the last
shirt, the last penny out of your pocket and never think another issue.
Helping, seems like. “Good job done”…

I walked past a
beggar for a month. Did not give any money, as I knew that this is a gang
operated scam and money collected by the beggar will be given to whoever
controls beggars in the area. Those people own numerous luxury properties and
cars. Oh and beggar also gets something, of course “ A bottle of vodka in the
evening and a döner kebab”. A month later, walking past the beggars, as shock,
it suddenly hit me….

I’m staying at a
busy crossing, stared at the baby, dressed as always- dirty track suit. I
realized that it seemed “wrong”, finding a child in a dirty underground station
from morning to evening. The baby slept. Never sobbed or screamed, always
asleep, burying his face in the knee of a woman who was his MUM.

Do any of you, dear
readers, have children? Remember how often they slept at the age of 1-2-3
years? Hour two, maximum three (not consecutive) afternoon nap, and again –
movement. For the whole month, every day of my walking in the underground, I’ve
never seen a child awake! I looked at the tiny little man, with his face buried
in the knee of his mother, then at the beggar, and my suspicion was gradually
formed. – Why he sleeps all the time? I asked, staring at the baby.

The beggar
pretended not to hear me. She lowered her eyes and hid her face in the collar
of her shabby jacket. I repeated the question. The woman again looked up. She
looked somewhere behind my back, tired with utter irritation. Her look was
similar to the creatures from a different planet. – F *** off … her lips
murmured. -Why is he asleep?! I almost cried …

Behind me someone
put his hand on my shoulder. I looked back. A some old man was looking at me
disapprovingly:

– What do you want
from her? Can’t you see how hard she’s got it in her life… Eh …

He gets some coins
from his pocket and throws them in the beggar’s bag.

Beggar made a hand
wave of a cross, portraying the face of humility and universal grief. The guy
removed his hand from my shoulder and strolled out of the underground station.
I bet, at home, he will tell how he defended poor, distraught woman from a
soulless man in a tube station.

Next day I called a
friend. It was a funny man with eyes like olives Romanian nationality. He only
managed to complete three and a half years of education. The complete lack of
education does not prevent him from moving around the City streets on very
expensive foreign cars and live in a “small” house with countless number of
windows and balconies. From my friend I managed to find out that this business,
despite the apparent spontaneity, clearly organized. Its supervised by begging
organized crime rings. The children used are in “rent” from families of alcoholics,
or simply stolen.

I needed to get the
answer to the question – why is the baby sleeping? And I received it. My friend
Gypsy said the phrase, completely ordinary with calm voice that twisted me in
shock, just like he was talking about weather report: -They are on heroin, or
vodka …

I was dumbfounded.
“Who is on heroin? Whom – under vodka?! ” He answered -The Child, so he doesn’t
scream. The women will be sitting whole day with him, imagine how he might get
bored?

In order to make
the baby slept the whole day, it pumped up with vodka or drugs. Of course,
children’s bodies are not able to cope with such a shock. And children often
die. The most terrible thing – sometimes children die during the “working day”.
And imaginary mother must hold another dead child on her hands until the
evening. These are the rules. And the by passers-by will throw some money in
the bag, and believe that they are moral. Helping “mother alone” …

… The next day I
was walking near the same underground station. I stocked up journalistic
identity, and was ready for a serious conversation. But the conversation didn’t
work out. But turned out the following … A woman was sitting on the floor and
in her hands she was holding a child. I asked her a question about the
documents on the child, and, most importantly, where was yesterday’s kid, which
she simply ignored. My questions were not ignored by passers-by. I was told
that I was out of my mind screaming at poor beggar with a child. All in all, I
was escorted out of the tube station in disgrace. One thing remained was to
call the police. When police arrived, beggar with the baby disappeared. I stood
with a full sense of – “I’m trying to fight windmills”.

When you see in the
subway, on the street whether women with children, begging, think before your
hand climb for money. Think about that, if it wasn’t for your hundreds of
thousands of handouts, the business like this would have died. The business
would die and not the children-inflated with vodka or drugs. Do not look at the
sleeping child with affection. See horror… Since you’re reading this article,
you know now- why the child is sleeping in beggars hands.

P.S.

If you copy this article on your
wall or just click “Share”, your friends will read it too.And when you decide
again to open your wallet to throw a coin to a beggar, remember that thischarity
could cost another child’s life.”